unblough

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by unblough 3y ago
> Said another way, LIGO can't work because the ruler itself is squashing as space squashes, so you can't measure if space is compressing. I think the chief confusion here is that you may be thinking the light arrives at the de
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by unblough 3y ago
> This Connection is Untrusted Go Back The owner of costantini.pw has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website. I tried to see what it built for you, an
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by unblough 3y ago
From your linked post: > What made this result so shocking at the time was that the common wisdom was that RNNs were supposed to be difficult to train (with more experience I’ve in fact reached the opposite conclusion). Fast forward abou
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by unblough 3y ago
I think this is an uncharitable reading of this thread. I’m arguing against the breathless use of “surprising”. My gp explains what I think you overlooked in this dismissive response. > to analyze its decisions computationally necessitat
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by unblough 3y ago
> It's surprising because it wasn't the intent of LLMs. LLMs are just predictive models that guess the most likely next word. Having the results make sense was never a priority. If you took the same amount of data for the GPT3+
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by unblough 3y ago
> Or by "async" do you just mean concurrent code? I'm reading "async" to mean lightweight coroutines or similar. Yeah, my bad, I was utilizing a colloquial definition of a term that has a technical definition in
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by unblough 3y ago
> Is parallel programming hard? Without any further details or specifics, yes it is. It is far harder to conceptualize code instructions executing simultaneously, than one-at-a-time in a sequential order. If I program (map inc [0 1 2 3])
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by unblough 3y ago
> Weird thing is it was designed to model language. It’s surprising that it returns sound answers as often as it does. Is this surprising? Can you point to researchers in the field being “surprised” by LLMs returning sound answers? >
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by unblough 3y ago
This comment from "50 days ago" absolutely rocked me then and continues to provide a sobering and depressing real life metric to the climate crisis. I've showed anyone who will listen this chart. https://news.ycomb
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by unblough 3y ago
> "Infinitesimal" is just an idea, as far as I know. Nothing real is infinitesimal. The unreal (re: abstracted) aspect is what places it outside the confines of “language” for me. Are black holes real? Do they have singularitie
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by unblough 3y ago
> This is just wrong lol. The needless condescension of your “lol” feels a bit premature. How can you have self correction without superintelligence?
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by unblough 3y ago
I am having trouble following your opinion through this thread. > Your argument demonstrates the usefulness of mathematics, but does not demonstrate that it isn't a language. What is “a language” to you? What is an “isn’t a language
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by unblough 3y ago
> Just wanted to question why these elements (namely intelligence and reasoning) strike the nerve that they do. “Just asking questions” is a meme of the unscrupulous. I think you are unfairly lumping those who believe in human exceptiona
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by unblough 3y ago
I recognize your clarification of “discovery” and conclusion from that research, but I do think there is a strong argument that in terms of the stochastic usage of a nonlinear system the “undefined” state of your nullable boolean is itself
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by unblough 3y ago
For me one major aspect of this “debate” is that the people who see or espouse what I see as over extensions of the abilities of technologies are the ones most unfamiliar with it. There is an old bit of unscrupulous advice that if someone o
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by unblough 3y ago
You are unable to. “LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds“ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823543 Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of the underlying function of llms or trying t
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by unblough 3y ago
Only thing missing in that video is some rando walking by on campus in the background yelling “when they come, I hope they come for you first!”
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by unblough 3y ago
If I am understanding your experience correctly the colloquial wisdom here is to use GIN on static data and GIST on dynamic data. > In choosing which index type to use, GiST or GIN, consider these performance differences: > GIN ind